Carlo Emanuele Muzzarelli

Carlo Emanuele Muzzarelli (19 April 1797-1856) was an Italian clergyman and a liberal Papal politician.

Biography
Carlo Emanuele Muzzarelli was born in Ferrara, Papal States on 19 April 1797, and he served in the Pope's Roman Guard before being appointed Auditor of the Rota. Pope Pius IX named him to his high council, charged him with the Ministry of Public Instruction, in charge of licensing issues for publication in the Papal States, and then presiding minister. After the 1848 assassination of Pellegrino Rossi by the liberal nationalist supporters of the Risorgimento, Muzzarelli became the new First Minister, and he had the reputation of a liberal as well as of a man of letters. On 24 November 1848, Pius left for Gaeta, leaving the stigmatized Muzzarelli in charge of the government in Rome. The clerics and patricians accused Muzzarelli of being a revolutionary, and he left for Tuscany, Corsica, and Genoa after the French Army put down the uprising of the Roman Republic in 1849. He died in 1856.